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William Blair & Company, founded in 1935, provides customized portfolio management for institutional investors across the world. Our firm has been employee-owned and independent for the entire 75 years of its existence. Our unwavering commitment to and collective focus on client success has defined William Blair & Company's character as a firm.

The majority of assets managed by William Blair & Company have been entrusted to us by institutional plan sponsors, including corporations, foundations, endowments, public entities, and Taft-Hartley plans. With all of the firm's investment professionals based in the Chicago headquarters, William Blair & Company's rigorous research process is driven by the collaboration of our intellectual capital.

William Blair & Company provides portfolio management for U.S. equity, international equity, global equity, and U.S. fixed-income strategies.

 

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Senior managers of the SMID and MID investment strategies
The June 2010 issue of Investment & Pensions Europe includes the 'Top 400 Asset Managers' supplement, IPE's listing of asset managers active in the European marketplace. The ranking is by worldwide assets under management, by the country of the main headquarters and/or main European domicile. William Blair & Company is No. 168, with total assets listed as €25,443 million as of December 31, 2009.
Patrick Quinn, CFA, Domestic Equity Specialist, William Blair & Company, recently authored "Small and Mid Cap Allocations to Drive Near-and Long-Term Excess Returns" (PDF) as well as a "2009 US Growth Equity Market Review: A Year of Mean Reversion" (PDF).
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